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18 years in Wall Street, left after finding out it was all horseshit. Founder/ Master and Commander: iBankCoin, finance news and commentary from the future.
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Rally Now or Die

Year to date, or the past 30 days of trade, the U.S. stock market has shed $2 trillion in market cap–due to this egregious global rout. At the same time, Janet Yellen has been of the mindset that the economy was too strong and required higher interest rates, in order to fend off rapid inflation.

She is the Don Quixote of central bankers, furiously steaming towards a legion of windmills with the intent to slew them where they stand.

It’s a helpless endeavor, trying to figure out what’s driving her to madness.

However, I do know a few things about markets and human emotion. We need to stick this landing. Everything has gone wrong in 2016, but gold and treasuries. We haven’t had a long enough rally to enjoy a purchase through settlement date.

That needs to end right now.

We must comport ourselves with the equanimity of “The Dude”, drink a few dozen white russians, then take this market higher…man.

Bonds are selling off. Stocks are bouncing off the lows. Let’s see if we can get something starting during the final hour of trade.

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21 comments

  1. tradingnymph

    2016 is a year that all my indicators and global equities start to match up. We all knew that Bulls would throw good money trying to defend SPX 1820. Regarding Oil Talk, Best twit I saw..Ashraf Laidi @alaidi….#OPEC ministers have just been told by Blackrock to talk up oil if they don’t want their SWF holdings to burn #forex #SPX

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  2. superpositron

    GET OFF THE ARK!

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  3. blahblahblah

    lack of sellers does not equal buyers

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  4. it is showtime

    not even batman can save you

    bluestar

    maybe

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  5. doubleplus

    Rally on an unsubstantiated OPEC rumor from UAE? Seems legit.

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    • infinitezuul

      Not so much that the rumour is horseshit, which it is. UAE has said this exact same thing before, I believe. More that these sorts of rumours and chatterings are becoming more commonplace, which means discord among OPEC. Or in other words, the Saudis are gaining more enemies.

      I truly, truly hope that Putin bombs a Saudi Aramco facility. I very much hope that.

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  6. gnat

    Please let me know if any new shit comes to light.

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  7. irishpitbull

    Back to the Ark!

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  8. chuck bennett

    Ladies and gentlemen

    Unless the Middle East wants an other Arab Spring , they better cut that production.

    If the banks fall, everyone falls.

    Unless this is the beginning of the one world currency. 😉

    Regards

    Chuck Bennett

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    • frog

      Good to see you here, Chuck.

      I don’t think the Powers That Be want another Arab Spring, so I imagine they should get something together there shortly.

      Then maybe we’ll start having “rallies” where the S&P is down less than 1%. Or eventually maybe it will even go up for a day.

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  9. edgar

    well it’s only thursday but okay, put my down for a couple of fangs and a small cap biotech or two. /s

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  10. frog

    Well, that’s our rally. Down less than 2% on the day is the new rallying.

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  11. margin call

    Wakes up
    Looks at S&P
    Not 1600 yet?
    Goes back to sleep

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  12. UncleBuccs

    Market rally will be fueled by the blood of doom & gloom curmudgeons…. and nymph juice. Just watch…

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  13. dragun

    Nice. OPEC ministers now stepping up as CBs cant do a thing.

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  14. frog

    Yes, dragun, here we have a rare situation where OPEC is more powerful than the Fed. Don’t tell anyone, but there are occasionally situations that the Fed can not control.

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  15. smartestone

    RHS – best etf ever made. Should have bought this months ago .It would take ww3 + another 911 + oil going to $4 for this to drop maybe 2% while the rest of the market goes limit lockdown. It’ so good they don’t even have options on it and it trades 30,000 shares a day. Most ppl don;t know about it

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  16. vandamme

    Time for the CIA, etc. to start destroying oil en masse…

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